Well, entering the stadium tonight was amazing!!!! My dear friend Hope Aguilar saved me a seat right up front and center of the California delegation, once she heard I would be on the main floor.  It was fantastic. (I was even on TV-see below). The speeches were so moving. Everything about it was wonderful.  The speakers were spot on and to cap the evening with Bill Clinton was genius.  The poor teleprompter person had a tough job because the speech touched on the written text but much of what he said (about 25 minutes worth or the 48 minutes speech) was not written on the page.  He somehow transformed that 25,000 plus seat arena into an intimate town hall meeting in a high school auditorium. That truly doesn’t happen every day.  The roll call for the nomination started once he did finish so it made for a long night for the secretary and the delegations from states at the end of the alphabet.

We had the California Delegation party so we left after our State was called.

The California Delegation Party was at the Nascar Hall of Fame Building.  It was a nice affair.  I walked with Hope and we met a couple of local woman.  Hope convinced them both to volunteer for the campaign.  Eric McCormack gave a speech to the delegation.  He was born in Canada but is now a US citizen.  he was fun at the party but in the convention, he has a poor attitude and really turned some people off.  No one expected him to be snippy but i truly would have charged him a snippy tax if i had been brave enough to walk up to him.  I think he got happier later but I didn’t stick around to find out.  It was nice of him to come to our party and if I hadn’t been sitting 10 seats away, I wouldn’t have even know he had been snippy.

View from the delegation area. The gentleman in the bright vest, Sean was his name, he is responsible for keeping the crowd lively. He passed out the signs. Pointed to people to smile if he saw a camera around etc. He was quite fun to watch. Needless to say, he never had to tell me to smile, I was giddy all night.

I had about 5 people text this photo to me after it hit the local air waves. My friend, Hope, is under my arm pit. I’m so glad I shaved.

Gloria Allred was sitting one seat over in the row behind me. I was stealth in my photography. I know she would have posed because she was posing for people all night but there was something fun in sneaking the shot.

John Kerry entering the house. He was great in his speech. He might have won his election 8 years ago if he was a relaxed and been energetic and as funny as he was tonight.

Yes, that’s Gray Davis and behind him is Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein sitting in for the nomination.